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Email PageApophenia
February 22, 2007- April 7, 2007
Karen Margolis
511 Gallery
529 W 20th St Karen Margolis Fight Club (2007) |
The exhibition, APOPHENIA, consists of a group of small delicate drawings juxtaposed by a large hanging sculpture installation. Margolis plays with the idea of contrasts, using as her subject the relationship between the infinite world of String Theory and the intimate experience of emotions. She weaves these unobservable phenomena into a visual compendium of thoughts, feelings and ideas.
Her work is primarily interested in connecting patterns between diverse and many times incongruous events to present perverse navigational systems, one's that divulge no routes or directions through life's circuitous path.
Compositions on paper, like Maelstrom, represent mappings of Margolis' interior feelings. She translates the activity in her mind into colored dots using a standardized color chart which enables her to document her recurring patterns of emotions. The media in which Margolis works include watercolor, gouache and graphite on Abaca paper. She also uses thread and sutures to attach mementos of her interactions with the outside world during her process of creation.
The sculpture installation, Flight, is created from Calabai-Yau spaces, part of a larger sculpture that was created during her residency at Dieu Donne Papermill and exhibited at the Aldrich Museum's PAPER show. Here Margolis invented a concrete presence for a multidimensional space that can only be known through a mathematical equation. The choreography of the piece in its current manifestation suggests the involuntary response to fear that inhabits all living beings.
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